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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 23, 20154 counties in North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2015, 9:13 PM CDT for 4 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 23, 2015, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2015, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Bismarck, ND
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Foster County, ND, Kidder County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Wells County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 23, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	11 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 117 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1074 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2327 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Bismarck, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 23, 8:52 PM CDT, 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 8:52 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 23, 8:44 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 23, 7:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 23, 7:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 23, 8:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 23, 8:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
811 PM CDT THU JUL 23 2015

NDZ034-035-240200-
MORTON-BURLEIGH-
811 PM CDT THU JUL 23 2015

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN BURLEIGH AND
NORTHEASTERN MORTON COUNTIES...

AT 809 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR MANDAN...MOVING EAST
AT 30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH AND HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS CAN BE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

SEEK SHELTER INDOORS UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BISMARCK...MANDAN...LINCOLN...MENOKEN...MCDOWELL DAM RECREATION
AREA...MCKENZIE...FORT ABRAHAM LINCOLN STATE PARK AND UNIVERSITY OF
MARY.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 4664 10108 4692 10095 4692 10040 4664 10038
TIME...MOT...LOC 0109Z 276DEG 24KT 4678 10096

MM

Local storm report, Jul 23, 8:25 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
825 PM CDT THU JUL 23 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0726 PM     HAIL             3 E CENTER              47.12N 101.25W
07/23/2015  E1.00 INCH       OLIVER             ND   PUBLIC

            2.5 INCHES OF RAIN ACCOMPANIED THE HAIL.

&&

NHEINERT

Special weather statement, Jul 23, 8:49 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BISMARCK ND
849 PM CDT THU JUL 23 2015

NDZ035-240230-
BURLEIGH-
849 PM CDT THU JUL 23 2015

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EAST CENTRAL BURLEIGH COUNTY...

AT 849 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF
MENOKEN...OR 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF BISMARCK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30
MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
STERLING...DRISCOLL AND MCKENZIE.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 4682 10052 4698 10058 4705 10049 4712 10020
      4679 10013
TIME...MOT...LOC 0149Z 242DEG 24KT 4692 10047

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 23, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean, Mercer, Sheridan	38 min
Jul 23, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant	56 min
Jul 23, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Pierce, Rolette	54 min
Jul 23, 7:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Burleigh	37 min
Jul 23, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, McLean, Mercer, Oliver	64 min
Jul 23, 7:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	Burleigh, McLean, Oliver	3 hr
Jul 23, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, McLean	60 min
Jul 23, 8:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Burleigh	49 min
Jul 23, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Kidder, Sheridan, Wells	59 min
Jul 23, 8:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Burleigh	41 min
Jul 23, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Stutsman	62 min
Jul 23, 10:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Stutsman	63 min
Jul 23, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure, Logan, Stutsman	59 min
Jul 24, 6:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	Renville	37 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.